Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - What an odd game...
I almost feel bad reviewing it, but it has to be done. I'll be honest.

Price: This is a very expensive game. $30 just for the base game and there are DLCs to buy besides it. At that price, you expect high quality, right? Well, it's not.

Art Style:
- Character animations are limited to 3 frames—janky and terrible.
- Portraits are well-drawn, but the in-game models are ugly and don’t match the portraits at all.
- The world map is a confusing mix of pixel art and 3D, clashing horribly.
- The blend of 3D scenery, 2D art, and pixel art feels disjointed, as if many different people worked on it without cohesion.

A Copy of FF Tactics:
This game tries hard to be Final Fantasy Tactics but fails. FFT had consistent art, gameplay, and originality. Here, everything feels like a Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V job—even the skills are similar.

Originality: None. Classes, clothing, and scenery are all copied with slight tweaks to avoid copyright issues.

Story: A bland, overdone trope about pseudo "chosen ones" and a spoiled noble. It’s a cliché no one can stand anymore.

Verdict:
This game doesn’t respect players. It’s overpriced, generic, and poorly made. I’d value it at $5, and only buy it on sale for $2.50 max.
Misleading reviews and store videos fooled me. Too bad I tried it too late to refund.

I would recommend this game. In fact, I'm reinstalling it because I have 68.9 hours played when I was recommending this game to other friends.

Stay cool, and have a great summer.

Xoxo.

Edit: Whew, I feel much better now. I'd recommend this game for many reasons, though mainly I cared enough about my playtime to have some fun factor here nearly a year later after starting up New Game+ to review my guys.

As someone who was a massive fan of the FF Tactics games, I found this to be another helping of many of the same things that I loved about those games. A customizable army of awesome characters, thoughtful and engaging tactical combat, and a wide array of interesting classes that can be combined with one another to strategize more effectively. There are a few gripes worth mentioning that may put off some; the story was mediocre at best (but truthfully far below average when compared to the wealth of amazing story-driven games nowadays), the progression system is not very intuitive (especially when it comes to unlocking classes for any given character), and some enemies were just straight up ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. Despite all of that, I did see the credits roll on this one, and it definitely scratched that FF Tactics itch that I have had for many years now. Also, highly recommend this one on the SteamDeck if you have one; makes for a fun on-the-go game that you can kind of thrown on intermittently.

Score: 3/5